Listed below are the outreach activities involving TibSchol team members, as well as the workshops organized in the framework of the TibSchol project.

2026

• 08–19.06.2026 International source reading workshop "Scriptures and Logic in Early Tibetan Madhyamaka: Phya pa Chos kyi seng ge (1109–1169)’s commentary on the Madhyamakāloka." IKGA, OeAW. Abstract.


• 02–03.06.2026 Team-members participation in the source reading workshop "Buddhist Pramāṇa across the Himalayas: Changing interpretations of the rules of inference" of the series "Connectivist Perspectives on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Buddhism: South Asia, Tibet, and Beyond," OeAW. Announcement.


• 07.05.2026 Zhouyang Ma: 新发现的一部夏译藏传《正理滴论》注释 [A Newly Discovered Tibetan Commentary on the Nyāyabindu, Preserved in Tangut Translation]. Guest lecture at the Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Studies Lecture Series, Tsinghua University. Announcement.


• 28.04.2026 Zhouyang Ma: The Hidden Lineage of Yujia yankou: From Tibetan Buddhism to the Tangut State and the Mongol Empire. Guest lecture at the Buddhist Studies Lecture Series, Heidelberg University. Announcement.


• 24.04.2026 Pascale Hugon: On the shoulders of Buddhas: Negotiating authority and creativity in the medieval Tibetan Buddhist tradition of learning. Presentation at the workshop "Shaping Knowledge in the Medieval World: Cross-Cultural Perspectives," IMAFO, Oeaw. Announcement.


• 15.03.2026 Zhouyang Ma: Bridging Empires: Buddhism among the Tangut Aristocrats under Mongol Rule. Presentation at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2026, Vancouver (March 12–15).


• 03.03.2026 Zhouyang Ma: A newly discovered commentary on the Nyāyabindu in Tangut. Presentation (hybrid) at the IKGA Research Colloquium.


• 18.02.2026 Pascale Hugon and Saranya Balasubramanian: Presentation of TibSchol database at the EurAsia Jour Fixe “How to get our Data into the Computer: Tools for Data Collection and Presentation and the Need for a Joint Digital Infrastructure in the Cluster,” Oeaw. Announcement.

2025

• 15–19.12.2025 Zhouyang Ma: Participation in the source reading workshop "bCom ldan ral griのTshad ma bstan bcos sde bdun rgyan gyi me togを読む会" [Reading workshop of bCom ldan ral gri's Tshad ma bstan bcos sde bdun rgyan gyi me tog], Nagoya University.


• 14.10.2025 Jonathan Samuels: Buddhist epistemology in the Geluk school: three key texts – reflections on the process of translation. Presentation (hybrid) at the IKGA Research Colloquium.


• 10–15.08.2025 TibSchol members' participation in the XXth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Leipzig University: (Website)
  • Pascale Hugon: The “defining the definiens” controversy in the eighth chapter of the Tshad ma rigs gter. In the panel "On Sakya Paṇḍita’s Treasury of Epistemology (tshad ma rigs gter)."
  • Zhouyang Ma: How did the Tanguts engage in Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism? Traces from manuscripts. Organization of the panel "Tangut Buddhist studies: Conceptualizing a field."
  • Lobsang Yongdan: The circulation, study, and publication of early Tibetan works among later Gelugpa scholars.


• 07–10.07.2025 TibSchol members' participation in the Leeds International Medieval Congress 2025, Leeds, UK: (Website)
  • 07.07 Pascale Hugon: Today a scholar, tomorrow a Buddha? Insights into the 11th-13th-century Tibetan world of learning. Keynote lecture. Webpage.
  • 10.07 Jonathan Samuels: The creation of the first Tibetan scholastic education materials. Organization of the panel "Religious communities and education in Medieval Asia: Knowledge transmission and adaptation." Webpage.


• 25.06.2025 Zhouyang Ma: In search of Jo btsun: The lost philosophical ideas of Khyung Rin chen grags found in Tibetan and Tangut sources. Guest lecture (hybrid) at the KC Lecture Series, Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship, Universität Hamburg. Announcement.


• 04–06.06.2025 International Symposium "In and around early Tibetan scholasticism," IKGA. Poster.


• 23.05.2025 Zhouyang Ma: Insights into Tangut linguistics from its translations of Tibetan Buddhist texts. Presentation at the international workshop "Tangoute et qianguique in situ / Tangut and Qiangic in situ," Institut d'études avancées (IEA) de Paris. Announcement.


• 23.04.2025 Zhouyang Ma: Why does Tangut Buddhist studies matter? Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism through the lens of Tangut texts. Guest lecture at the University of Hong Kong. Announcement. Poster.


• 01.04.2025 Michael Ium: Weaving the Yellow Hat: The construction of the Geluk tradition. Presentation (hybrid) at the IKGA Research Colloquium.


• 14.03.2025 Zhouyang Ma: The 1502 Tangut dhāraṇī pillars revisited: An alternative perspective on the local history of post-Jin Northern China. Presentation at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2025, Columbus (March 13–16). Website.


• 22.01.2025 Pascale Hugon: Filling the gaps in the early Tibetan scholastic corpus. Guest lecture (hybrid) at the KC Lecture Series, Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship, Universität Hamburg. Announcement.


• 09.01.2025 Jonathan Samuels: Tibetan monastic curricula: When did they first emerge? Guest lecture at the ISTB, University of Vienna. Poster.

2024

• 20.12.2024 Zhouyang Ma: Unveiling Khyung Rin chen grags: Why his intellectual framework matters and how to approach its study. Presentation at the international workshop "第1回チベット仏教研究会ワークショップ" [The First Workshop of the Study Group of Tibetan Buddhist Studies], Nagoya University (December 19–20).


• 30.11.2024 Pascale Hugon: An inventory of recently surfaced early Tibetan Abhidharma commentaries. Presentation in the framework of the source reading workshop "Abhidharmakośa Commentaries Across the Himalayas: Changing Interpretations of Karma Theories" of the series "Connectivist Perspectives on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Buddhism: South Asia, Tibet, and Beyond," ISTB, University of Vienna (November 29–30).


• 16.11.2024 Zhouyang Ma: 从印藏佛教中翻译中观学至西夏文：对俄藏2818号文献中偈颂的语文学研究  [Translating Madhyamaka from Indo-Tibetan Buddhism into Tangut: A philological study of the verses in Inv. 2818]. Presentation at the international workshop "丝绸之路上的佛教文明与写本文化" [Buddhist Civilisation and Manuscript Culture along the Silk Road ], Zhejian University, Hangzhou (November 15–18).


• 10–11.11.2024 Zhouyang Ma: Co-organization of the international workshop "藏传佛教的形成：对重要的文本、思想及世系的新见" [The Becoming of Tibetan Buddhism: New insights on influential texts, ideas, and lineages], Tsinghua University, Beijing. Poster. Abstract.
  • Zhouyang Ma: 穹·仁钦扎与藏传佛教经院学的黎明 [Khyung Rin chen grags at the dawn of Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism].


• 07.11.2024 Zhouyang Ma: 汉语“本续”如何成为指称密典的术语？西夏时期藏、夏、汉互动的语文学思考 [How Did the Chinese Word benxu Come to Mean tantra? Philological Reflections on Tibetan, Tangut, and Chinese in the Tangut Period]. Presentation at the World Conference of Classics (世界古典学大会), Beijing (November 6–8). Media announcement.


• 05.09.2024 Jonathan Samuels: Structuring public disputation: The perspective of medieval Tibetan Buddhist scholastics. Presentation at the XXVIII Annual Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale: "Communities of Debate: Collective Intellectual Practice in Medieval Philosophical Thought," Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (September 4–6). Program.


• 05.09.2024 Zhouyang Ma: Two early biographical accounts of Atiśa preserved in Tangut sources. Presentation at the Seventh International Seminar of Young Tibetologists, University of Oxford (September 2–6). Website.


• 21.08.2024 Zhouyang Ma: Organization of the panel "Madhyamaka in 11th–13th Century Tibet and the Tangut State" at the International Conference "Madhyamaka in South Asia and Beyond," IKGA, Vienna (August 18–22). With presentations by:
  • Zhouyang Ma: Further exploring rMa bya Byang chub brtson ’grus' influence in the Tangut State: A case study of the Tangut Ornament of the Sixfold Collection of Madhyamaka.
  • Pascale Hugon: When dreams come true – A contested view on the division of conventional truth ascribed to rNgog Blo ldan shes rab.


• 05.07.2024 Pascale Hugon: "If you desire to study, go to gSang phu!" Presentation at the workshop "Monasticism and Religious Identities in Tibet: Yogic Cultures and Study Curricula in the Long 15th Century," Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna (July 5–6).


• 19.06.2024 Pascale Hugon: Charting the early scholastic corpus in the TibSchol project. Presentation at the international symposium "Sanskrit and Tibetan Studies between Austria and China: Celebrating 20 Years of Cooperation," IKGA, Vienna.


• 15.06.2024 Zhouyang Ma: Respondent at the online event "The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim - Conversations on Buddha-Nature with Karma Phuntsho and Gregory Forgues," Tsadra Foundation. Website (book).


• 12.06.2024 Zhouyang Ma: The early biographical tradition of Atiśa revisited: With new Tibetan and Tangut sources. Presentation at the workshop "Tibetan Buddhism in the Tangut State," Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.


• 04.06.2024 Zhouyang Ma: The Tangut State on the crossroads of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Guest lecture in the framework of the course "The Tanguts: An ethnic group in Central Asia and its relation to Tibetan culture" at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna.


• 27–29.05.2024 Pascale Hugon: Organization of the international source reading workshop "Two works on the Two Truths by rGya dmar ba Byang chub grags (12th c.)" at the IKGA. Poster. With presentations by:
  • Pascale Hugon: General introduction: rGya dmar ba's life and works and his intellectual circle.
  • Pascale Hugon and Kevin Vose: An overview of the dBu ma de kho na nyid.
  • Zhouyang Ma: The Tangut Gu tśja ɣiej tsji̱r tśhji kjịj.
  • Pascale Hugon: The Matho fragment v311.


• 24.05.2024 Pascale Hugon: Wie kommt die KI der Tibetologie zugute? Poster at the Lange Nacht der Forschung, Vienna.


• 07.05.2024 Zhouyang Ma: The Tangut people, their language and script. Guest lecture in the framework of the course "The Tanguts: An ethnic group in Central Asia and its relation to Tibetan culture" at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna.


• 16.03.2024 Zhouyang Ma: Dhāraṇī and State: An aspect of the Mongol inheritance of Tangut Buddhism. Presentation at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2024, Seattle (March 14–17). Abstract. Organization of the panel "Non-Han regimes and Middle Period China: Cultural dynamics and plurality." Panel abstract.

2023

• 25.11.2023 Zhouyang Ma: 际会与交融：西藏论师在西夏 [Encounters and Exchanges: Tibetan Scholars in the Tangut State]. Presentation (online) at the international symposium "青藏高原各民族交往交流交融的历史与现实" [History and Current Situation of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Exchange, Communications and Integration], Institute for Building a Strong Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation, Sichuan University and Center for Tibetan Studies of Sichuan University, Chengdu (November 25–26). Poster, Website.


• 22.11.2023 Pascale Hugon: Wege des Wissenstransfers in den buddhistischen scholastischen Netzwerken Tibets im Lichte neuer Textquellen. Guest lecture (online) at the Forschungskolloquium Eurasische Gesellschaften 400–1600, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.


• 03.10.2023 Zhouyang Ma: The Tangut assimilation of Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism: 1149–1227. Presentation (hybrid) at the IKGA Research Colloquium.


• 15.09.2023 Lobsang Yongdan: How are ‘others’ different from Buddhists? The emergence of the study of ‘heretical’ rationalities in twelfth-century Tibet. Presentation at the 12th Polish Congress of Philosophy, University of Łódź, Łódź (September 11–16). Website.


• 11.07.2023 Pascale Hugon: Exploration of the 11^th-13^th-century scholastic landscape in the project TibSchol: Roadmap, initial steps, dead-ends, and open avenues. Presentation at the workshop "Early Tibetan Religious Networks: New Perspectives on the phyi dar," Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (July 10–11). Announcement.


• 13.06.2023 Jonathan Samuels: An attempt at impartial recording: A unique Tibetan contribution to medieval disputation culture? Presentation at the IKGA Research Colloquium.


• 20.05.2023 Pascale Hugon: The world is not enough. Presentation (online) at the workshop "Truth and Knowledge in an Empty World" in honour of Tom J.F. Tillemans, University of Wisconsin-Madison (May 18–21).


• 27–28.04.2023 Rachael Griffiths: Co-organization of the symposium "Advanced Computational Methods for Studying Buddhist Texts" at the Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Vienna. Poster. Short report.
  • Rachael Griffiths: Towards transcribing handwritten Tibetan manuscripts with HTR.


• 18.04.2023 Pascale Hugon and Rachael Griffiths: Verwendung der Texterkennungsplattform Transkribus für die automatisierte Transkription handgeschriebener tibetischer Texte im Projekt TibSchol. Presentation at the 2. ACDH-CH Forschungstag zu TRANSKRIBUS "Unlocking our written past," ÖAW, Vienna.

2022

• 25.11.2022 Rachael Griffiths: Encoding text reuse in early Tibetan Buddhist scholastic texts. Presentation (hybrid) at the workshop "Repetition and Ritual, Text and Edition, Challenges and Solutions," Department of Byzantine Research and Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (November 24–25). Poster.
   
• 25.08.2022 Pascale Hugon: Beyond the initial statement – The Pramāṇavārttika undercover in the preclassical period of Tibetan epistemology? Presentation (online) at The 6th International Dharmakīrti Conference, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea (August 21–26). Website.
   
• 03–09.07.2022 TibSchol members' presentations at The 16th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Charles University, Prague (July 3–9). Website.
  • Serena Biondo: Early phyi dar scholastic networks (online). In the panel "Early religious networks: Monastic institutions and eclectic traditions in the 11th–15th centuries."
  • Rachael Griffiths: Using Transkribus for Tibetan Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR). In the panel "Tibetan digital humanities and natural language processing."
  • Pascale Hugon: Looking for authoritative figures in the early Tibetan epistemological tradition. In the TibSchol-organized panel "Arguments from and against authority." 
  • Lobsang Yongdan: Authority in the making: the earliest studies of the Ornament of Realization in Tibet. In the TibSchol-organized panel "Arguments from and against authority."
  • Jonathan Samuels: The rise and fall of an authority: The case of Phywa pa Chos kyi seng ge (1109–1169), a foundational figure in Tibetan scholasticism (online). In the TibSchol-organized panel "Arguments from and against authority."
• 20.05.2022 Pascale Hugon, Jonathan Samuels, Kurt Tropper: Debattieren oder meditieren? Poster at the Lange Nacht der Forschung, Vienna.


• 16–17.05.2022 Pascale Hugon: Co-organization of the international source reading workshop "Reading from the Beginning – Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Commentators on the Statement of Purpose" at the IKGA. Poster.
  • Pascale Hugon: rNgog Blo ldan shes rab on the statement of purpose.
     
• 03.05.2022 Lobsang Yongdan: Forged stories - Early studies of the Ornament of Realization (Abhisamayālaṅkāra) in Tibet. Presentation at the IKGA Research Colloquium.


• 05.04.2022 Pascale Hugon, Serena Biondo: Co-organization of the workshop "Current Ventures in Tibetan Intellectual, Textual, and Social History – A Showcase of Vienna-based Research Projects" at the University of  Vienna, Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (ISTB). Poster.
  • Serena Biondo: Mapping networks of early Tibetan scholasticism.

2021

• 29.11.2021 Pascale Hugon: ‘Philosophical creativity’ or ‘self-fabricated aberration’? The category of yid dpyod and its integration into accounts of testimonial knowledge in early Tibetan Buddhist scholastic works. Guest lecture (online) at the Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum, Harvard University. Announcement.


• 07.07.2021 Pascale Hugon: Putting recently recovered early Tibetan epistemological works on the map: The epistemological summary ascribed to gNyag. Guest lecture (online) at the KC Lecture Series, Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship, Universität Hamburg. Announcement.